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The woman in black by susan hill 19836/11/2023 During Jennet’s life, her child died in a terrible accident legend has it that whenever the woman in black appears, another child dies in the village. Eventually a local man, Sam Daily, informs him that Alice Drablow’s sister Jennet haunts the house. In the midst of his work, he catches glimpses of a ghostly woman dressed in black. Kipps sifts through acres of paperwork, working through the night alone – or so he thinks. He has been dispatched there by his boss to settle the affairs of a deceased widow named Alice Drablow. The plot concerns a mysterious spectre that haunts a small English town. It concerns a visit made by Kipps as a young man to Eel Marsh House, a coastal mansion at the end of a causeway which is cut off from the mainland at high tide. The Woman in Black is a 1983 gothic horror novel by English writer Susan Hill. It is a story so bleak, he continues, that he cannot say it out loud he will write it down so that he “might finally be free of it”. Date read: 12.21. When they ask him to tell them a ghost story, he offers up a tale of “haunting and evil, fear and confusion, horror and tragedy … an inextricable part of my past”. S usan Hill’s 1983 novella opens on Christmas Eve with the retired solicitor Arthur Kipps at home with his second wife, Esmé, and his stepchildren.
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